ALCTS Acquisitions Section Meetings

ALL COMMITTEES MEETING

Acquisitions Section Committees are meeting together on Saturday, January 12. If you are interested in joining an Acquisitions Section meeting and would like to sit in on the committee meetings, please join us

Saturday, January 12

1:30-3:00

Doubletree, Symphony Room

Committees: Acquisitions and Organization Management, Education, Policy and Planning, Publications, Research and Statistics, and Technology.

INTEREST GROUP

ACQUISITIONS MANAGERS AND VENDORS INTEREST GROUP

The ALCTS Acquisitions Section -- Acquisitions Managers and Vendors Interest Group is pleased to present the following session at ALA Midwinter:

"Locations and Dislocations in Technical Services: Coping with a Move Offsite"

Date: Sunday, January 13, 2008

Time: 1:30-3:30pm

Location: PCC Room 105B

As library space becomes pressured by information commons, collaborative study areas, coffee shops and full stacks, technical services operations are increasingly being considered for relocation-- to outside the library or even
entirely off-campus. Whether those moves are permanent or temporary (e.g., for renovations), the effects of disruption, distance, and impact on technical services workloads can be significant. How have Acquisitions managers coped with these changes? How have their vendors and agents been able to help?

Join us as an experienced panel of two librarians and a vendor discuss their experiences with this growing henomenon. Some of the topics we expect to cover include: physical change of address; timing of first redirected shipments; impact on approval review procedures; opportunities for new workflow layouts; communication issues, and many others.

The panel's presentations will last about one hour, leaving at least 45
minutes for questions and discussion. We look forward to a lively session,
and to some practical advice from both panelists and audience members who
have confronted this issue.